AI designed to mimic human interaction can exploit weaknesses in our minds and emotions—with catastrophic consequences.

DeepSeek is the new AI chatbot on everybody’s lips and is currently sitting at the top of Apple’s App Store in the US and the UK. A completely free AI model built by a Chinese start-up, DeepSeek wants ...

My Replika avatar was supposed to help me understand why people fell for virtual companions. It taught me so much more.

While Nomi's chatbot is not the first to suggest suicide, researchers and critics say that its explicit instructions—and the ...

But she discovered a community of more than 50,000 users on Reddit — called “ChatGPT NSFW” — who shared methods for getting the chatbot to talk dirty. Users there said people were barred ...

The app’s “DeepThink” mode responds to every query with the text, “Thinking…,” followed by a string of updates that read like the chatbot talking to itself as it figures out its final ...

McCarty Carino: Do scammers very often, you know, reach a point in the conversation where they understand that they are talking to a bot? Does that happen very much? Kaafar: So our Apate bots can ...

Defining AI chatbot personality could be based on how a bot “feels” about itself or on how a person feels about the bot they’re interacting with.

Next, I wanted to ask both AI chatbots about the NFL Playoffs ... the AI model that has everyone talking. People online are saying DeepSeek’s free reasoning model is as good as ChatGPT ...